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  "thread": {
    "id": 379,
    "subject": "Re(2): Mirrors, Apports",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-02-17T15:31:23+00:00",
    "last": "1998-02-17T15:31:23+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0007-0565@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CRCulver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-02-17T15:31:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re(2): Mirrors, Apports",
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          "text": "Kieran said:"
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Problem here though in that Fr. Inire says that a coherent light source\n(laser) is required for anything more complicated than the Fish to form. The\nship is presumably driven by starlight which is non-coherent.<"
        },
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          "text": "Inire, in his presence chamber, used merely one light, which was wildly\nincoherent (if it was coherent, Inire and Thecla's friend would have had so\ndifficulty seeing it). Outside of the ship, however, there are myriad lights,\nthe stars. Thus, there is a greater probability that one of the light rays\nwill be *coherent enough* to form an apport. Or, perhaps the sails, unlike\nthe glass mirrors of the presence chamber, can warp light so that it is\ncoherent. I dunno, really.\nI wonder how good of a thaumatugist Father Inire was. He seemed to only\ndabble in the art, instead of making a career out of it like Hethor. Perhaps\nwe only saw him in his \"mad scientist\" form, and not in his true work.\n\nChristopher Culver <new_sun at hotmail.com>"
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